The Ability to Adapt
February 15, 2022 Welcome to my blog! For the final term of school we are to
create weekly blogs, so this is it.
I wanted to talk about the struggles of being
a photography student, more specifically how we have to learn to adapt. In the
nearly 2 years of this course pretty much every assignment I have done I’ve had
to adapt because of covid restrictions, location, equipment and people. The most recent was during
my fine art assignment in which we were to create a conceptual/narrative. I
wanted to go bold and have this grand illustration. My concept was
metamorphosis and the internal transformation we go through as humans.
I spent hours looking for visual inspiration
and I came across a German photographer
called Carsten Witte who created a series called ‘Psyche’. While his concept
was about female beauty, I saw transformation and that’s when I realized I
wanted to work with butterflies.
I had this wicked idea and I was excited to
shoot however, the day arrived and even though I took my time to look into the
technical side, things still went south. My equipment was acting up and it just
wasn’t going to happen. So I went home that night and realized I had to adapt
to something more simple but still illustrates my idea and pleases my
perfectionist mind. I spent the next day at work brainstorming with my co
worker and creating a new plan and I was ready to go.
So the next day I created my makeshift
studio in my home using two chairs to stretch out a black mattress cover and my
mum as my lighting stand. While it wasn’t quite was I hoped for in my initial
vision, I’m thoroughly pleased with my ability to bounce back and adapt my
concept to something more simplified.
If you are interested in more of Carsten Witte’s work, I highly suggest taking a look at the link down below!
Carsten Witte (myportfolio.com)
And if you are interested in a new song, this is my song of the week
‘Shadow’ by Chromatics